Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior the Senate had finally passed (72-to-11) the measure after President Hoover's spectacular dash to the Capitol (TIME. June 6). His belated and ambiguous recommendation for a "general manufacturers' excise" tax the Senate impatiently brushed aside. Long after his return to the White House, Senators orated angrily against his sudden visit to their chamber, called it an unnecessary publicity stunt...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills and Governor Meyer of the Reserve Board went out to Chicago to do there what had been done the week prior in Manhattan-set up a new committee to find channels through which the new credit could be pumped out to "reflate" trade & finance. On the committee, besides leading bankers, were such potent Chicago industrialists as President Alexander Legge of International Harvester Co.; President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman...
...days prior, Inquisitor Seabury had questioned an old client of the Mayor's, one Abraham Schwartz, showman and realtor. Showman Schwartz reconstructed the scene of the Mayor's introducing him to Fugitive Sherwood: " 'Abe,' he says, 'I am the Mayor of the City of New York now, and all transactions of business-take it up with Sherwood, whatever he does, it suits...
...indication of how many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles or in-laws members had been able to tuck into the payroll under other names. ¶ Tully Garner, the Speaker's son, down for $91.66 per month. A few days prior to the list's publication Son Tully, who tends his father's Texas ranch, was dropped from the nation's service...
...weeks prior the Governors had gathered in this same austere room to launch a Federal Reserve policy to expand credit. Now they were back again to decide its future...